Anish's WeblogAnish's Webloghttps://blogs.oracle.com/anish/feed/entries/atom2013-01-23T10:42:38+00:00Apache Rollerhttps://blogs.oracle.com/anish/entry/in_india_in_feb_2006In India in Feb 2006anish 2006-02-28T14:53:47+00:002006-02-28T22:53:47+00:00<html>
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<h4>Recent India Trip Feb 2006</h4>
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I was in India and went to visit the holy Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine on
Feb 18.&nbsp; <br>
First I traveled by bus with a couple of friends to the town of Katra.
We then<br>
took an auto-rickshaw to Ban Ganga which forms the <a
href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/anish/DSCN0342_edited.JPG">Holy
Entrance for the trek</a>.<br>
The temple is located at 5200ft above sea level and is 13
kilometers (~8 miles) away from Ban Ganga. <br>
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One could walk along the serpentine paved path or walk up the steps all
the way to the top. <br>
We walked along the path and took the steps most of the way down. <br>
Here is a <a
href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/anish/DSCN0328_edited.JPG">View
of Trikuta Hills</a> taken about 50 miles away shows the serpentine
trekking route<br>
to the top of the hills ( see the white dotted lines). I have seen
people run, crawl and roll up <br>
the entire path. Our visit (or darshan) was successfully done within 8
hours.<br>
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On an unrelated topic, here is a picture of an <a
href="http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/anish/DSCN0337.JPG">Elephant</a>
near my house in Jammu Tawi.<br>
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I have been adding stuff about Jammu Tawi at&nbsp; the existing
Wikipedia link.<br>
See details at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu">Jammu Tawi</a>
which has all the gory details ;-)<br>
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</html>https://blogs.oracle.com/anish/entry/history_of_jammuHistory of Jammuanish 2005-06-03T23:54:56+00:002005-06-04T06:58:20+00:00According to the most popular legend, Jammu city was founded by Raja Jamboolochan in 14th century BC as he found divine power here. During one of his hunting campaigns he reached near a river (Tawi) where he saw a goat and a lion drinking water at the same place. The king was impressed and decided to set up a town after his name, Jamboo. With the passage of time the name got corrupted and became "Jammu".
The city name figures in the ancient book Mahabharata. Name of Jammu city is also found in the memories of Timur.Excavation near Akhnoor provide evidences that Jammu was a part of Harappan civiliaziation. Remains of Mauryan , Kushan, and Gupta periods have also been found.
https://blogs.oracle.com/anish/entry/about_the_cityAbout the cityanish 2005-05-27T14:29:42+00:002005-12-30T05:16:10+00:00<html>
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<p>I am from <a
href="http://www.kashmirherald.com/peopleandplaces/travelplaces/jammutawi.html">Jammu
Tawi</a>, the Indian city of temples. It is part of&nbsp; Indian state
of&nbsp; <a href="http://jammukashmir.nic.in/">Jammu and Kashmir.</a>
Every year millions of&nbsp; devotees pass through Jammu to visit <a
href="http://maavaishnodevi.org/new1/index.html">Vaishno Devi</a>
temple shrine. Last year more than 6 million devotees journeyed there.
The unique thing about it is that the actual temple is located at an
elevation <span
style="font-style: italic; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">5200
feet</span>. Devotees trek&nbsp; a total of&nbsp; <span
style="color: rgb(204, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">13 kilometer
(~8.1 miles)</span> from an altitude of 2500 feet to reach the temple. <br>
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